Leaders of the two groups met with municipal authorities on November 14 to compare notes on the pre-feasibility study on the project at a cost of over 13.9 billion JPY (nearly US$190 million).

In 2007, Nihon Suido Consultants conducted a pre-feasibility study on a project to improve environmental sanitation in Da Nang city.

Based on the study, Nihon Suido Consultants and its partners, including Sumitomo, JFE Engineering and Tsukishima Kakai recently set up a working group to develop the project under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.